Buffy the Red: Yo, Omni, when are you coming back?  You know that Hera is too busy to lecture you now, right?

Omnoculus: Yeah?  That’s awesome.  :-) [https://forum.royalroadl.com/images/smilies/smile.png]

Omnoculus: How long do you think it will last though?

Buffy the Red: Maybe another day or two before she manages to delegate everything out.

Buffy the Red: See you for a dungeon run in a few?

Omnoculus: Wellllll, probably another few hours until I’m back at the earliest, honestly.

Buffy the Red: ?

Omnoculus: I have to finish this psych evaluation, and then I’m on standby or something.

Buffy the Red: I’ve never seen somebody given a psych evaluation for fighting a dragon before. . .

Omnoculus: Not for that, but I have a story about a guy I knew and a low level slime mob that’s similar.

Omnoculus: The psych bit is for seeing a space-squid.

Buffy the Red: . . .

Omnoculus: You know I’m part of the tech crew, technically, right?

Buffy the Red: Duh.  You may have mentioned it a fewwww times.

Omnoculus: Well, they had me looking at space today, like in real life, and I saw a space-squid.

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Buffy the Red: So, how’s the psych test going?

Omnoculus: :-) [https://forum.royalroadl.com/images/smilies/smile.png]

Omnoculus: It scores me at the end.  I’m completely sane though.  I blame faulty equipment or some sort of prank.

Buffy the Red: Somebody would actually screw with the tech that’s floating us through space?

Omnoculus: Well, they chose you all because you guys are smart, not because you’re wise.

Buffy the Red: Hey!  I’m plenty wise!

Omnoculus: Sure sure.  Remind me to tell the story about the slime when I’m back in-game.

Buffy the Red: Why not now?

Omnoculus: It needs a proper campfire to tell the story to its full potential.  Trust me.

Omnoculus: But yeah, somebody might have messed with the equipment, or maybe it just malfunctioned.

Buffy the Red: Seems like a dumb thing to do.  We’re still safe, right?

Omnoculus: Yeah, should be.  It’s just the mid-range scanners.

Buffy the Red: Good.

Omnoculus: Plus, we actually have competent mechanics who are being deprived of game-time right now to look at the issue.

Buffy the Red: So, space squid?

Omnoculus: Right.  A squid shape, tentacles and all, floating in an ocean that was floating in space.

Buffy the Red: Ocean?

Omnoculus: Maybe more like a nebula, but more see-through?

Buffy the Red: So you saw what, if real, was an alien?

Omnoculus: There’s no way it was real.  If it were, it would be the size of a moon, maybe a small planet.

Buffy the Red: So, a really big alien?

Omnoculus: Right, if it were real, it would give c’thulhu nightmares.

Buffy the Red: That sounds cool.  Did you get pictures?

Omnoculus: I wish.  Then maybe I wouldn’t be here answering questions about how often I hear noises other people can’t hear.

Buffy the Red: Too bad.  Good luck on the sanity!

Buffy the Red: Gotta run, Hera is sending me with one of the caravans to get lumber for rebuilding, so catch up with us when you log back in.

Omnoculus: I will try my hardest.

Omnoculus: Hopefully I get back in while she’s distracted still.

Omnoculus: Why did I join this guild again?

Buffy the Red: Boredom, the raids, a competent healer?  ttyl

Omnoculus: Later.